Professional Diploma in Fleet and Trade Route Management

To make the transport of goods as efficient and profitable as possible by matching the right ships to the right routes, keeping costs down and making full use of the available resources.

Alongside chartering, maintenance, crewing and finance, it puts route and network design at the center: trade corridors, chokepoints, hub-and-spoke versus point-to-point services, fleet sizing and the feasibility of opening or changing a service.

No. The diploma focuses on maritime transport, although it covers how shipping integrates with rail, road and inland waterway corridors in multimodal supply chains.

No. A related degree or experience in maritime, port or logistics operations is enough; the admission interview confirms that the program fits your profile.

Yes. One module deals with CII, EEXI, the EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime and their commercial impact on routes, speed, bunkering and the choice of alternative fuels.

The final module introduces business intelligence and analytics tools such as Power BI, Python and R, AIS-based tracking data and machine learning models for ETA, freight demand and fuel price forecasting.

Through practical exercises and case studies throughout the modules and an integrating project in which you design the operating plan, route optimization, decarbonisation strategy and economic assessment for a commercial fleet.

Fully online, through a virtual campus available 24/7 with live sessions that are recorded. The diploma comprises 800 hours across 8 modules of about 100 hours each.